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THE EFFECT OF MULTIPLE SΔ PERIODS ON RESPONDING ON A FIXED‐INTERVAL SCHEDULE: II. IN A PRIMATE 1
Author(s) -
Dews P. B.
Publication year - 1965
Publication title -
journal of the experimental analysis of behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.75
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1938-3711
pISSN - 0022-5002
DOI - 10.1901/jeab.1965.8-53
Subject(s) - squirrel monkey , interval (graph theory) , primate , white light , reinforcement , schedule , white (mutation) , psychology , communication , neuroscience , mathematics , biology , computer science , physics , optics , combinatorics , social psychology , biochemistry , gene , operating system
A squirrel monkey was subjected to a fixed‐interval pattern of reinforcement. During the course of each interval a bright white light was repeatedly presented. In the presence of the white light, a response was never immediately followed by food; the white light thus functioned as S Δ . Responding was interrupted during the S Δ periods, but in the squirrel monkey as in the pigeon, these interruptions did not destroy the characteristic scalloped pattern of the cumulatively recorded responding through each interval.